Hard writing makes easy reading.
WALLACE STEGNER Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue an...
WALLACE STEGNER A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
WALLACE STEGNER ... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint ...
WALLACE STEGNER There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersect...
WALLACE STEGNER One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that...
WALLACE STEGNER [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
WALLACE STEGNER Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
WALLACE STEGNER What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a...
WALLACE STEGNER Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend...
WALLACE STEGNER Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its co...
WALLACE STEGNER Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tiss...
WALLACE STEGNER The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
WALLACE STEGNER It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rul...
WALLACE STEGNER She was so old, she would have had to be dated by carbon 14.
WALLACE STEGNER Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.
WALLACE STEGNER [T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, o...
WALLACE STEGNER It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our m...
WALLACE STEGNER It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.
WALLACE STEGNER have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
WALLACE STEGNER One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, ...
WALLACE STEGNER She saw objectives, not obstacles.
WALLACE STEGNER Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ...
WALLACE STEGNER I can't help remembering that good old wild Thoreau wound up a tame surveyor of Concord house lots. ...
WALLACE STEGNER Oh, listen. Listen!' A sound like a big crowd a good way off, excited and shouting, getting closer. ...
WALLACE STEGNER The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even livi...
WALLACE STEGNER [The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneli...
WALLACE STEGNER If I spoke to Rodman in those terms, saying that my grandparents' lives seem to me organic and ours ...
WALLACE STEGNER What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's...
WALLACE STEGNER wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as...
WALLACE STEGNER It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparsenes...
WALLACE STEGNER It is something-it can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the raf...
WALLACE STEGNER Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exci...
WALLACE STEGNER We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift...
WALLACE STEGNER Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is t...
WALLACE STEGNER The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that ...
WALLACE STEGNER By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a ...
WALLACE STEGNER That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd tak...
WALLACE STEGNER Before I can say I am, I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is compo...
WALLACE STEGNER You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
WALLACE STEGNER You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, lu...
WALLACE STEGNER She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
WALLACE STEGNER There is one thing above all others that I despise. It is fingers, especially female fingers, messin...
WALLACE STEGNER Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not...
WALLACE STEGNER Getting old is like standing in a long, slow line. You wake up out of the shuffle and torpor only at...
WALLACE STEGNER A huge part of our success this year is that we have such talented musicians in every section of the...
JEFF STEGNER We are providing emergency preparedness brochures.
DAVID STEGNER Largeness is a lifelong matter,” he wrote. “. . . You grow because you are not content not to. Y...
WILLIAM STEGNER I like 'Jesus is Just Alright with Me.' I know some people think it's corny, but there's no substitu...
JEFF STEGNER I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird...
WALLACE STEVENS After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
WALLACE STEVENS Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
WALLACE STEVENS Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our d...
WALLACE STEVENS The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade thro...
WALLACE STEVENS In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to l...
WALLACE STEVENS The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
WALLACE STEVENS Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
WALLACE STEVENS Money is a kind of poetry.
WALLACE STEVENS A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
WALLACE STEVENS We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intoleran...
WALLACE STEVENS The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
WALLACE STEVENS In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
WALLACE STEVENS A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
WALLACE STEVENS Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
WALLACE STEVENS In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supportin...
WALLACE SHAWN There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and ev...
WALLACE SHAWN I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you wou...
WALLACE SHAWN Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
WALLACE SHAWN Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or por...
WALLACE SHAWN I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothe...
WALLACE SHAWN After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, br...
WALLACE SHAWN I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
WALLACE SHAWN I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most oth...
WALLACE SHAWN I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a...
WALLACE SHAWN Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love ...
WALLACE SHAWN I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people ...
WALLACE SHAWN My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In oth...
WALLACE SHAWN I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
WALLACE SHAWN 'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would...
WALLACE SHAWN We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor ...
WALLACE SHAWN It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to...
WALLACE SHAWN I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess...
WALLACE SHAWN When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expr...
WALLACE SHAWN We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, ...
WALLACE SHAWN Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding any...
WALLACE SHAWN I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my frien...
WALLACE SHAWN 'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I...
WALLACE SHAWN Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.
CARLOS WALLACE You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could...
DANIEL WALLACE In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and...
MIKE WALLACE Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
An...
WALLACE STEVENS The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
WALLACE STEVENS Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a wom...
WALLACE STEVENS O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are com...
WILLIAM WALLACE Campaigns bring out the warriors in everybody.
NICOLLE WALLACE I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
CHRIS WALLACE Cut blocking is not fair, it's going after the legs. It would be the same thing if in NASCAR you wer...
AL WALLACE Football was a game that had kicked me around pretty good for a few years. I almost called him and s...
AL WALLACE If you look at the film like we did this morning, he's making more plays after the first and second ...
AL WALLACE You win football games by stopping the run and 1,800 yards this year is definitely a priority for us...
AL WALLACE It's a good feeling to go out and play like we did. So many guys made so many plays today. We gave t...
AL WALLACE It's going to be interesting. They have a great team. Some great weapons on offense and their defens...
AL WALLACE You try to contain (Vick) as best you can, but once he's in your sights you have to open fire. If yo...
AL WALLACE With our legs and knees there is enough bad stuff that can happen on accident. But to allow someone ...
AL WALLACE I fell down in the mud and here it comes falling down in my lap.
AL WALLACE It's kind of scary. You look at the things they're doing, 4-0 now, it's kind of parallel to what we ...
AL WALLACE I think the long-term potential is very, very good. There's a large amount of energy in the ocean.
ALAN WALLACE These guys are so dedicated and passionate about what they do.
ALAN WALLACE I'm a qualified lifeguard and have being teaching people how to surf for five years now. Victor used...
ALAN WALLACE I have had this ambition for quite a long time but just did not know how to do it.
ALAN WALLACE The existence of biases hurts recruiting. Intentionally overlooking some things just because you wan...
ALAN WALLACE I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind ...
MARCIA WALLACE What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclo...
WALLACE STEVENS They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as th...
WALLACE STEVENS I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob...
BOBBY WALLACE When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then lear...
WILLIAM WALLACE Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low
WALLACE SAYRE Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? ...
T.R. WALLACE I don't expect people to forget my brash words or deeds. But I ask that they try to remember the...
GEORGE WALLACE Opusculum paedagogicum
The pears are not viols,
Nudes or bottles.
They resemble nothing els...
WALLACE STEVENS In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds a...
CARLOS WALLACE Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.
WALLACE STEVENS Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state ...
WALLACE STEVENS The poet is the priest of the invisible.
WALLACE STEVENS I don't think people think about Zook anymore at Florida. He's just a memory there now.
ALLEN WALLACE If he (Schilling) goes to Washington that will be a giant positive for them in many different ways.
ALLEN WALLACE A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomp...
ALLEN WALLACE If you win the mythical recruiting title, it shows you're focused, you've got momentum and that you'...
ALLEN WALLACE They [Stoops and Carroll] have a unique ability to plan for the short term and the long term at the ...
ALLEN WALLACE It's always harder to stay at the top. Soon they're going to find out what it's like to try to recru...
ALLEN WALLACE You don't see Penn State hanging on in the latter stages of these recruiting races for difference ma...
ALLEN WALLACE I think it's case of Penn State not focusing on the right kids. You don't see them often bringing in...
ALLEN WALLACE They have the stature now where they can appeal to anyone, anyplace.
ALLEN WALLACE Ultimately, it’s about determining what matters most to you; what’s important; what it will take...
CARLOS WALLACE A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
DANIEL WALLACE Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
WALLACE STEVENS How red the rose that is the soldier
WALLACE STEVENS One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
WALLACE STEVENS Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, ...
WALLACE STEVENS Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
WALLACE STEVENS The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
WALLACE STEVENS Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
WALLACE STEVENS Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. ...
WALLACE STEVENS I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing...
WALLACE STEVENS When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
LEW WALLACE How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
WALLACE STEVENS As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
WALLACE STEVENS Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their compla...
WALLACE STEVENS The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.
WALLACE RICE If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget ...
WALLACE STEVENS One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
LEW WALLACE The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the thr...
WALLACE STEVENS Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
WALLACE STEVENS How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more th...
WALLACE STEVENS Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves t...
WALLACE STEVENS I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. Th...
WALLACE STEVENS All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli...
WALLACE STEVENS The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of ...
WALLACE STEVENS What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu...
WALLACE STEVENS Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ...
IRVING WALLACE If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to...
LEW WALLACE Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ...
STEVE WALLACE Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
WALLACE STEVENS The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
WALLACE STEVENS Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White Hous...
NICOLLE WALLACE To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never rece...
WILLIAM WALLACE When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
MIKE WALLACE It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of menta...
NICOLLE WALLACE To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice...
IRVING WALLACE I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ...
MIKE WALLACE Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalt...
NICOLLE WALLACE I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her bl...
NICOLLE WALLACE We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fan...
GEORGE WALLACE There are few things that weigh on a person’s ability to grow and thrive more than insecurity. One...
CARLOS WALLACE People spend money they don’t have on clothes and accessories they don’t need to fill a void. No...
CARLOS WALLACE Insecurity is a powerful enemy. It forces people to use make-up, plastic surgery, collagen injection...
CARLOS WALLACE Happiness will never flourish in a life bereft of optimism.
CARLOS WALLACE I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of art...
WALLACE SHAWN Um, Larry likes to coach.
BEN WALLACE What we focus on every night is going out there and making this thing work and finding ways to win g...
BEN WALLACE Whoever wins this is the world real basketball champion.
BEN WALLACE Right now, I'm not really thinking about any of that. I'm just out here trying to have fun, play bas...
BEN WALLACE It definitely helped our team. I think it helped everybody on our team get better. He played a major...
BEN WALLACE He didn't cut it, did he? Good. I like that hair. I'm rolling with him.
BEN WALLACE I think our whole team has picked it up. We're getting the ball moved from side to side, forcing tea...
BEN WALLACE All that hard work is nothing if we don't continue to play the way we've played. Everybody's focus h...
BEN WALLACE They're a struggling team right now, trying to find their identity. I thought last year they had all...
BEN WALLACE That's how we've been playing all year. We're not going to panic regardless of what the situation is...
BEN WALLACE Employment is improving, or at least stabilizing.
ANDREW WALLACE We saw an additional fall this morning after yesterday's dramatic fall, and bond futures touched a n...
ANDREW WALLACE We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.
ANDREW WALLACE We're taking our cues from the stock market. Bonds are at a three-month high today [Wednesday].
ANDREW WALLACE The team gave us a really good car despite the little practice time we had but we still don't have t...
ANDY WALLACE